Okey so 10bit is getting more and more popular and thats good cause the quality is lovely, but sadly i cant figure out how i can convert the 10bit episodes into audioless lossless avi files ready for editing. I tryed vitrualdub+avisynth and nothing, i tryed anyvideoconverter and nothing :/

Copy the file into your avisynth plugins folder . Then Open up a text editor . And type in ffvideosource("file.mkv")Replace file.mkv with the specific location of your source then save as a .avs file . Lastly load the file on whatever program that can take this (VirtualDub) in most cases!!!

So your saying we can edit 8bit lossless files in an editor, render it lossless then do the script thing and encode it to 10bit?

Say I wanted to rip a blu ray but wanted it to be 10bit, would I rip with lossless scenes that I want,edit them and render lossless then do that script thing into w/e x264gui with the 10bit x264 stuff?

Sorry, new to all this 10bit stuff, all I know about it is that you need a 10bit 264.exe lol

You can do it, but the process to make good 10bit is different. For 10bit to make most of its sense, you'll want to use a tool such as the dither package to bump it to 16bit and deband at 16bit and then load that avs in a 10bit build of x264. Kind of complicated if you're new to this stuff. You can of course easily just give an 8bit input to the 10bit x264, and you'll still save space, but by doing the 16bit deband you'll save extra space and have higher quality gradients.

Are there any easy guides for the 16 bit dithering stuff out there? Having a hard time finding one... And would it work with grainy footage? I got some DVDs with like perfect video quality but their from old masters so their pretty grainy, so I don't know if the dithering would effect that at all, but I like the grain.

Obviously, do adjust the debanding strength to what your source needs so to not over deband. As I recall, there should also be a script that basically dithers back to 10bit while keeping the bitdepth to 16 for a better quality dither to 10bit, but it seems it is a temporary solution before it gets implemented in the dither pack, so I'll refrain from posting it here.After that, you need to pipe the script to x264 in order to tell it it's 16bit, unless you are using JEEB's patched x264, which has a patch to avoid the piping for easier usage. Here is how you pipe however (works even if you do use JEEB's patched build):

Where script.avs is your avs, output.mkv is the file you want to get in output, 1280x720 is the resolution of what you had (the convey will make it twice the width) and the framerate is, well, your framerate. Do feel free to adjust the other settings as well as needed.

Not really, since ffvideosource loads it just fine. Updating the amvapp would be enough.OTOH, if it's about encoding to 10bit, well, doing it really well requires some knowledge which definitely would require a new guide. Otherwise for easy 10bit encoding, just updating zarxgui would do, so even there it's not like we need a new guide.We'd rather need a better guide about ivtc and about resize, I believe.

When you open 10bit videos in AviSynth, it look as though acid as been spilled on it. Even if you do manage to clean it up, other parts will look bad. Is there a way to open 10 bit files without having it look like that or does it go away after the lossless conversion?